Street-car



(No Model.)

P. M'.- KLING.

STREET UAR.

Patented Mar. 20,'1-894.

l UNITED STATES l PATENT QEEICE PETER M. KLIN G, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

`STREET-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letter 5 Patent No. 516,934,6.ated March 20, 1894. Application lod August 14, 1393. Serial No. 483,128. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Beit known that I, PETER M. KLING, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Street-Cars, of which" the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference beinghad to theaceompanyingdrawings,form ing part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvementin the platforms of street-cars; and my invention consists in features of novelty, hereinafter fully described and pointedout in the claims.

Figure I is a top view, illustrative of'my invention. Fig. II is an enlarged, detail elevation, part in section. Fig. III is a detail view, part in section, and part in elevation; the section being taken on line III-III, Fig. IV. Fig. IV is a detail, top view. Fig. V is an elevation showing the cam and part of the shaft. Figs. VI and VII are detail elevations.

Referring tothe drawings, 1 represents the platform of a street or other car. It is divided at each end between thebody and the dashboard by a short partition 2, so as to provide for two passage-ways at each side of the canone, A, for the passengers entering the car, and the other, B, for passengers leaving the car, sol that the passengers entering do not interfere with the passengers leaving the car. Each passage-Way may be supplied with a turnstile, and the turnstile of passage-Way, A, is arranged to operate the usual register on the car. Each turnstile consists of a vertical shaft 3, stepped at bottom into a suitable bearing 4, made fast to the platform, and held at the top by a box or bracket 5, which secures it to the dashboard or to the body of the car,acoording to thelocation of the shaft. On the upper end of the shaft is a head 6, to which a suitable number of arms 7 are pivoted at 8. Beneath the head 6 is a collar 9, having a cam surface 10 for receiving projections 11 on the inner ends of the arms 7. The upper horizontal surface 12, and the lower vertical surface 13 of the collar, also receive the projections 11, as shown in Fig. III. The collar has a shoulder 14, preferably inclined slightly, to prevent retrograde movement of the arms, While permitting them yto move gently from a vertical to a horizontal position. The collar 9 is rigidly secured to the body of the car, or the'platform, and the shaft 3 passes through it., as shown in Fig. V. The shaft 3,

at the entrance A, is connected by any suitable means to the usual car register, or to aA register specially provided for the purpose. 4I-have shown theshaftprovided with a notched collar 15 see Fig. II, adapted to operate upon one end of a pivoted bellcranklever 16, which 6o is connected by a cord 17 to the register, the

register not being shown.

The operation is as followsz-As a passenger gets onto a car, at A, he moves the arm 7 in front of him, turning the shaft 3 partly 65 shaft, and again operate the register. When 7o a passenger is getting off, at B, he turns the stile in the same manner, and as neither stile can be turned backward, on account of the abrupt incline at 14, passengers cannot get on at B, nor off at A. By pivoting the arms 7 to the head 6, they are automatically raised to a vertical position by the cam surface 10, to permit them to pass the car body or the dashboard of the car, as they come around to either of these objects, and then they drop 8o again into a horizontal position, after pass. ing the dashboard or ear body in order to obstruct the passage Ways A and B.

I have shown a pair of turnstiles at each end of the platform, but it is evident that one Y end only might be supplied, if one end only is to be used by the passengers getting o and onto the oar, and I have shown a rail, by dotted lines at 20, Fig. I, such asL would be used in the absence of stiles. Y

. To prevent the turnstile at A being operated other than by a passenger entering the car, and to prevent a person on the platform from operating the register through means of the turnstile, I provide an automatic lock which holds the stile from being turned, except when a passenger is entering. I haveshoWn this lock as consisting of a plate 2l,

located over the step at A, and which is seroo cured; at its inner edge to a rock-shaft 22, the outer edge of the plate being supported bya spring 23. 0n the rock-shaft is an arm 24, which engages in notches 25 in the periphery one pair of the turn- 9o of the wheel 15, (see Fig. VI.) Then the passenger entering steps on the plate 21, he withdraws the arm 24Efrom the wheel 15, permitting the stile to turn, and when the passenger moves onto the platform, the plate 21 automatically rises and engages the arm 24c with the wheel again, thus locking the shaft of the turnstile. As an additional security against the retrograde movement of the turnstile at B, the shaft of this tnrnstile may have a disk 3 located beneath the platform, with notches 3b in its periphery to receive an arm 26 on a yielding plate 27, located in the platform near its edge, (sec Figs. I and VII.) A passenger leaving the car and stepping on the plate 27, would unlock the stile, and when he left the platform, the plate 27 would rise and automatically lock the shaft of the stile by bringing the arm 26 into engagement with the notches of the disk on the shaft.

I claim as my invention- 1. A street car platform havinga partition at one end thereof extending transversely of the length of the oar, and dividing the platform into two parallel passageways between the car body and dashboard; substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A street oar platform having a short partition 2 extending in adirection transversely of the length of the car, and providing separate passageways A, B at one end of the platform, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In combination with a street car, a platform having passageways A, B, at one end thereof and a tnrnstile mounted in each passageway; substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

PETER M. KLING. In presence of- GEO. II. KNIGHT, A. M. Enniasonn. 

